XML-based Subject Guides: Pulling It All Together

Abstract

Susan Tschabrun, Librarian, California State University, Fullerton; Mike Blyleven, Assistant Head of Library Systems, California State University, Fullerton.

California State University at Fullerton Library is working to move away from hardcoded subject guides created using Microsoft FrontPage to a dynamic solution based on the MetaLib X-Server, the SFX API (or eventually Verde SOAP services), and our ILS XML Gateway. Key goals for this project include minimizing duplicate data entry while giving librarian subject specialists the flexibility they need to quickly pull together groups of resources for a discipline, course, or other purpose. The presentation will show the results of our work and explain the decision-making behind some of the choices we made.